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Youngme Moon of the Harvard Business School created this video introducing her new book, DIFFERENT, an intimately drawn meditation on the meaning of business differentiation. She teaches one of the most sought-after courses in the school's

“The hard thing is not setting a big hairy audacious goal. The hard thing is laying off people when you miss the big goal. The hard thing is not hiring great people. The hard thing is when those great people develop a sense of entitlement and start

Co-founders, family-owned businesses, and professional service firms often have this arrangement. There can only be one real head of the company, no matter what title each person has. If employees aren't clear about who's going to make key final

With our economy improving, your customers should be buying more of what you sell. What, they’re not? Then this is an indicator that you may need to update your strategy – and quickly.
Two key warning signs of a weak strategy are flat or declining

Different cultures can have radically different leadership styles, and international organizations would do well to understand them. Business Insider recently published an update (posted by Gus Lubin) on British linguist Richard D. Lewis who charted

The 212 Degrees concept reminds us all of the power we have within us when we just "turn it up" 1 extra degree. It is that one-degree that is holding many people back.
There's an old Chinese saying that I just love: "The temptation to quit will be